Registering apparatus.



'No. 870,975. PATEN'I'ED NOV. 12, 1907.

S. K. LOWMAN.

REGISTERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22. 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

SAMUEL K. LOWMAN, OF HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO JONES GOLD STOREDOOR 00., OF HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND.

REGISTERING APPARATUS.

Patented Nov. 12, 1907.

Application filed June 22. 1907. Serial No. 380,351.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL K. LOWMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hagerstown, in the county of Washington and State ofMaryland, have invented new and useful Improvements in RegisteringApparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a registering apparatus.

An apparatus involving my invention may be used with advantage invarious connections, although the same is of particular utility whenemployed in connection with a storage room into which ice is delivered.

in the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification 1show in detail one effective form of embodiment of the invention which,to enable those skilled in the art to practice the same, will be setforth at length in the following description, while the novelty of theinvention will be included in the claims succeeding said description. Insaid embodiment the apparatus is shown in connection with a storage roomand it is of such character as to effect a register or count of blocksof ice delivered thereinto.

The apparatus is simple in construction, can be inexpensively and easilymade, and can be connected with storage rooms or houses without anymaterial modilication thereof.

Referring to said drawings: Figure 1 is a cross sectional view of theentering portion or doorway of an ice storage room equipped withregistering apparatus involving my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontalsection on line 22 of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view on anenlarged scale of the registering apparatus, and Fig. 4 is a like viewon an enlarged scale of a sleeve or boxing.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several. figures ofthe drawings.

1n Figs. 1 and 2 1 have illustrated the doorway leading into anice'storage room, the same being denoted in a general way by 5 andhaving a door as 6 mounted therein, the door 6 being adapted to beopened by the impact of blocks of ice thereagainst and to be closed bythe action of a spring as 1 acting thereagainst. The front of thestorage room is denoted by 8. These features in themselves form nospecific part of the invention, for which reason they need not befurther described. I prefer to make the bottom 9 of the doorway 5downwardly and inwardly inclined to facilitate the passage of ice intothe storage room or compartment. The bottom usually comprises a woodenbody provided with a facing as 10 of sheet metal, which facing protectsthe wooden body from wear. At the entering end of the doorway andnaturally atthe outer end of the in clined bottom 9 is a ledge orshoulder 11 extending partially across the said doorway, and the purposeof this ledge or shoulder is to break or separate cakes of ice in casethey should adhere, by virtue of which such cakes of ice individuallyoperate the registering mechanism. Were several cakes to stick together,such cakes in such condition might effect but a single operation of theregister, whereas, if they are broken up in case there is any adherencethereof, I can obtain a proper count of the same. The inclined bottom 9serves as a run-way along which the cakes of ice travel toward theinterior of the storage room.

There is shown as mounted in an opening in the bottom or inclinedrun-way 9 between the front and the rear ends thereof a sleeve or boxing12, the upper edge of which is represented as flush with the uppersurface of the said bottom or run-way 9. This sleeve or boxing 12incloses for vertical reciprocation the block 12 which is operated bythe cakes of ice to effect the action of a register such as 14 suitablymounted on the front 8. This boxing or sleeve 12 isshown as havinglateral lugs 15 adapted to be suitably attached to the under side of thebottom 9 and as also having a cross-bar as 16 through a centralperforation in which the depending stem 17 of the block 13 is adapted tovertically move.

The stem 17 is shown as jointed or pivoted at its lower end to one endof a lever as 18, the opposite end of said lever being similarlyconnected to a rod as 19 vertically disposed and equipped with a weightas 20 which, if desired, may be adjustably mounted on the rod and heldin an adjusted position thereon by means of the set-screw 21. The lever18 is shown as fulcrumed between its ends to a bracket as 22 attachedsuitably to the under side of the bottom 9.

The lower end of the vertical rod 19 is connected with the lever 18,while the upper end of said rod is jointed to one end of a lever as 23,the opposite end of said lever being connected to one end of a rod orlink as 24. The lever 23 is pivotally supported between its ends on oneof the sides of the doorway 5. The forward end of the rod or link isconnected with the crank-arm 25 connected operatively with the register1 1 so that, when the arm 25 is swung forward, said register will beoperated.

The weight 20 serves as an effective and positive means for upholdingthe block 13 normally in its operative position, the top of said blockat this time being above the upper surface of the run-way or bottom 9,as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The block is in proximity to the shoulder11, by virtue of which the shoulder will insure the passage of the cakesof ice successively on to said block 13. Each cake of ice when it passesfree of the ledge or shoulder 11, will depress the block or bring itsupper surface flush with the corresponding portion of the bottom orrunway 9. As the block 13 is lowered in such manner the rod 19, throughthe intermediate lever 18, is elevated, whereby the rod 24, through theaction of the lever 23, will be thrust forward to swing the arm 25forward and cause the operation of the register 14 in the mannerpreviously set forth. As soon as a cake of ice passes from off the block13 the weight by dropping can, through the intervening parts, return thearm and the block 13 to their original positions. In the present casethere is but one block 13 in connection with the run-way or inclinedbottom 9. It will be seen that the upper surface of this inclinedrun-way is smooth so as to provide for the proper passage of theseparated cakes of ice therealong.

What I claim is:

1. The combination of an inclined run-way having a ledge at the frontside of the same to break adhering cakes of ice, a single block, theupper surface of which is normally located above the correspondingportion of said runway and said corresponding portion being smooth, saidblock being operable by the individual cakes of ice, a register, andconnections between the block and the register for operating the latter.

- 2. The combination of a run-way, a sleeve mounted in the run-way, ablock movable in said sleeve and having a stein, the sleeve beingprovided with a perforated crossbar through the perforation in whichsaid stem is movable, a lever connected with the stem, a rod connectedwith and operable by the lever, said rod having a weight connectedtherewith, a second lever to which said rod is connected, a second rodconnected with the second lever, and a register provided withanoperating arm to which said second rod is connected. I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL K. LOWMAN.

Witnesses J. V. .TAnIsoN, A. YINGLING.

